Larry T. Jamison, 70, a mechanic and inventor who contended his
"Jamison Energizer" would solve the nation's energy woes, died yesterday morning at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo after along illness.
Mr. Jamison, formerly of Memphis, said in a 1981 interview in The Commercial Appeal that he perfected the device—a type of electric motor that he claimed would provide electricity for homes and run an automobile "around the world" without gas, oil or water while serving a prison term in Texarkana, Texas, for violating the federal firearms act.
He was charged with stock fraud in 1983 in Alabama after authorities there accused him of selling stock in a corporation to manufacture his device, which critics claimed would work only if the laws of physics were defied. Jamison claimed his "energizer" would generate more electricity that it used, permitting the excess energy to be stored in batteries that never needed recharging.
"I always wanted to try the impossible-- to do what people said couldn't be done, " Jamison said in 1981. "I'd really like to build a car for the people that would run on nothing."
Mr. Jamison lived in Nettleton and Eupora, Miss., Rogersville, Ala., ard Memphis, where he at one time had a shop at 1299 McLemore.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today at C. O. Pate Funeral Home in Senatobia with burial in Mt. Zion Cemetery in Independence.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Flora Jamison; two daughters, Mrs. Peggy Fulmer of Warrendale, Pa., Mrs. Faye Bowers of Memphis; a son, Jimi Jamison of Memphis; a sister, Mrs. Irene Goin of Olive Branch, and a brother, Bilbo Jamison of Senatobia, seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
"Jamison Energizer" would solve the nation's energy woes, died yesterday morning at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo after along illness.
Mr. Jamison, formerly of Memphis, said in a 1981 interview in The Commercial Appeal that he perfected the device—a type of electric motor that he claimed would provide electricity for homes and run an automobile "around the world" without gas, oil or water while serving a prison term in Texarkana, Texas, for violating the federal firearms act.
He was charged with stock fraud in 1983 in Alabama after authorities there accused him of selling stock in a corporation to manufacture his device, which critics claimed would work only if the laws of physics were defied. Jamison claimed his "energizer" would generate more electricity that it used, permitting the excess energy to be stored in batteries that never needed recharging.
"I always wanted to try the impossible-- to do what people said couldn't be done, " Jamison said in 1981. "I'd really like to build a car for the people that would run on nothing."
Mr. Jamison lived in Nettleton and Eupora, Miss., Rogersville, Ala., ard Memphis, where he at one time had a shop at 1299 McLemore.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today at C. O. Pate Funeral Home in Senatobia with burial in Mt. Zion Cemetery in Independence.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Flora Jamison; two daughters, Mrs. Peggy Fulmer of Warrendale, Pa., Mrs. Faye Bowers of Memphis; a son, Jimi Jamison of Memphis; a sister, Mrs. Irene Goin of Olive Branch, and a brother, Bilbo Jamison of Senatobia, seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
Larry T. Jamison, 70, a mechanic and inventor who contended his
"Jamison Energizer" would solve the nation's energy woes, died yesterday morning at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo after along illness.
Mr. Jamison, formerly of Memphis, said in a 1981 interview in The Commercial Appeal that he perfected the device—a type of electric motor that he claimed would provide electricity for homes and run an automobile "around the world" without gas, oil or water while serving a prison term in Texarkana, Texas, for violating the federal firearms act.
He was charged with stock fraud in 1983 in Alabama after authorities there accused him of selling stock in a corporation to manufacture his device, which critics claimed would work only if the laws of physics were defied. Jamison claimed his "energizer" would generate more electricity that it used, permitting the excess energy to be stored in batteries that never needed recharging.
"I always wanted to try the impossible-- to do what people said couldn't be done, " Jamison said in 1981. "I'd really like to build a car for the people that would run on nothing."
Mr. Jamison lived in Nettleton and Eupora, Miss., Rogersville, Ala., ard Memphis, where he at one time had a shop at 1299 McLemore.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today at C. O. Pate Funeral Home in Senatobia with burial in Mt. Zion Cemetery in Independence.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Flora Jamison; two daughters, Mrs. Peggy Fulmer of Warrendale, Pa., Mrs. Faye Bowers of Memphis; a son, Jimi Jamison of Memphis; a sister, Mrs. Irene Goin of Olive Branch, and a brother, Bilbo Jamison of Senatobia, seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
"Jamison Energizer" would solve the nation's energy woes, died yesterday morning at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo after along illness.
Mr. Jamison, formerly of Memphis, said in a 1981 interview in The Commercial Appeal that he perfected the device—a type of electric motor that he claimed would provide electricity for homes and run an automobile "around the world" without gas, oil or water while serving a prison term in Texarkana, Texas, for violating the federal firearms act.
He was charged with stock fraud in 1983 in Alabama after authorities there accused him of selling stock in a corporation to manufacture his device, which critics claimed would work only if the laws of physics were defied. Jamison claimed his "energizer" would generate more electricity that it used, permitting the excess energy to be stored in batteries that never needed recharging.
"I always wanted to try the impossible-- to do what people said couldn't be done, " Jamison said in 1981. "I'd really like to build a car for the people that would run on nothing."
Mr. Jamison lived in Nettleton and Eupora, Miss., Rogersville, Ala., ard Memphis, where he at one time had a shop at 1299 McLemore.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today at C. O. Pate Funeral Home in Senatobia with burial in Mt. Zion Cemetery in Independence.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Flora Jamison; two daughters, Mrs. Peggy Fulmer of Warrendale, Pa., Mrs. Faye Bowers of Memphis; a son, Jimi Jamison of Memphis; a sister, Mrs. Irene Goin of Olive Branch, and a brother, Bilbo Jamison of Senatobia, seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
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